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No way Jose! Hideo can be in the Golden Club in Japan, my home country! But no American hall of fame! Only Molly Ringwald should be in there! Nomo declined as a pitcher after his initial season with the Dodgers. And a no-hitter doesn't entitle you to the Hall.

Don't throw out his numbers cause he sucked, if you want to say he opened the doors for asians to come here and play i would understand why he got voted in

hmmm no argument from the other guy and 3 votes i don't like that. people need to vote on the argument

Well, anyone who could throw a no-hitter against the Rockies at Coors Field during a time in which there were no humidors, and the 12-10 score was more than commonplace, isn't someone who sucked.

Anyone who could throw 2 no-hitters is someone with talent.

he is like borje salmin in the nhl....he was a pioneer in international waters.....nuff said

YOu can't include what he did in Japan, it's like including numbers from somebody's AAA days or something , it's what you do in the Majors and he didn't accomplish enough

I'd love to read more about Molly Ringwald's Hall of Fame credentials. Speaking of which, how about a throwdown on Pretty in Pink vs. Sixteen Candles?

Sixteen Candles...anyont that would give up her panties gets my vote.

Blylevn should be in.

I'm not going to say that Hideo Nomo should be a Hall of Famer, but I believe that Britt makes some good points in his argument...especially about the standards voters have with pitchers, and why it is ridiculous for these same people to turn their backs on guys who had excellent careers(i.e. Bert Blyleven) and slight them because they did not reach a specific win total that is becoming more and more elusive in today's level of baseball.

But, on the subject of Hideo Nomo, he did have a very good career, and I certainly am of the belief that his impact upon major league baseball has been undervalued over the years, which is unfortunate and just plain wrong. It just happened that Nomo debuted here in the states back in 1995, when Cal Ripken was on the verge of setting the consecutive games mark, but while the country was so engulfed upon this record that, theoretically(and I'm sure that I'll get blasted for saying this) could be perceived as a measure of ignoring the better interests of a team over time, a player such as Nomo could come over here and absolutely dominate the way he did for much of that year.

Major league baseball by 1995 was a caldron of much anger, disgust, apathy, discontentment, disillusionment, etc, etc, etc. by it's fanbase over the heinous crime committed the year before. Major league baseball, without any shadow of a doubt, desperately needed someone to capture the imagination of those who were still enraged over the World Series cancellation(among other points of shame baseball had brought on to itself), and Hideo Nomo was the one who made baseball intriguing again.

This guy, who came to America so anonymously to try his hand at the major league game, would be the one who would help to begin the healing of the breach between fan and the baseball establishment.

What people forget about that season is that it took an absolutely superhuman year by Greg Maddux(19-2 with an ERA around 1.50) to, in effect, stand in the way of a Cy Young award in Nomo's name...

As it is, everyone believed so thoroughly that the McGwire-Sosa home run chase of 1998 was the seal that finally adhesed so many of those prior wounds, but is that really true with what has been exposed nowadays with the steroid factor in baseball?

So, perhaps the Nomo impact on baseball back in '95 should be more appreciated now. Not so much for his being the inspiration for any number of the Japanese League veterans to try their luck here in the states, which is a very big deal, of course, but how Nomo, himself, could reinvigorate people's interest in a league that was in major trouble.

Should he be a Hall of Famer for this? No.

But, hey, on the bright side, at least Nomo was a Yankee...sort of...so, that'll influence a few of the voters, right? That's way more invaluable than Molly Ringwald's Hall of Fame credentials.

Sorry, Molly. I loved you as a kid, but no Cooperstown honor for you. :(

Pretty in Pink had the better soundtrack.